Gearing.



W. A. SALTER.

GEARING.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9. I9II.

1,137,026. Patented Apr. 27,- 1915.

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W. A. SALTER.

GEARING.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9. I911,

Patented Apr. 27, 1915.

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it may be fully UNITED STATES PATENT @FFECE.

WILLIAM A. SALTEB, 0F KANSAS CITY, MISSGURI, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGH-MENTS, TO E. H. PURDY, OF CLAY CENTER, KANSSAS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1,.WILLIAM A. SALTER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gearing, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to gearin for renovators of that class whereby'abrics re cleaned within a drum rotated througli a body of gasolene oranalogous liquid, and my object is to produce a machine of thischaracter whereby fabrics may be quickly and eilici'cntly cleaned anddried, my special object being the provision of meansfor automaticallyrotating the drum in reverse dirbctions alternately to effect thethorough cleansing of fabrics within the drum and for rotating thelatter in a sin le direction at high' speed to expeditiously ry suchfabnos.

A further object is to produce a machine of this character of simple,strong, durable and inexpensive construction.

With these and other objects in view as hereinafter appear, theinvention consists in certain novel and peculiar features ofconstruction and organization as hereinafter described and claimed; andin order that understood reference is to behind to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1, is a side view of a renovator embodyln myinvention. Fig. 2, is a plan view ofa part of the machine; Fig. 3, is avertical section on the line III-III of Fig. I

2, and Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view showing the h ngeielation'betweentwo of the doors. 'In the said drawings-1 indicates a suporting endframe, there being one of these frames at. each side of the machine, andmounted upon andsecured to said frames is a gasolene receptacleconsisting of vertical semi-circular, sides 2, and a semi-cylindricalbody 3, between the sides, and said body is provided at its rear upperedge with a downwardly and inwardly opening hook or stop 4. Underlyingthe body 3 of the receptacle is a receptacle 5, for hot water, providedat its front side with a short tube 6 for convenience in introducing theWater into said receptacle 5 and provided with a drain tube 7 equippedwith a spout 8, controlledby a valve 9.

10 is atube through which gasolene may be Withdrawn from the. gasolenereceptacle, said tube preferably extending down through the receptacle 5and thence through the adjacent end frame 1,-and outward..0f the latterit is provided. with .a oontitolling valve 11.

12 indicates a semicylindrical hood or cover of smaller diameter thanthe gasolene receptacle, so as to be ciipable of:sw i ngin within thelatter, said. hood being provide at its rear. edge with an upturnedoutwardly-disposed hook or stop 13, for engagement with the hook or stop4, and at its ront end with a cleat 14 as a fillingstrip betweenit andthe inner surface of the body 3 of the gasolene receptacle. The saidfilling strip, when the hood is opened, provides a convenient handlewhereby latter can be readily closed, as shown in Figs. 2 and-3.

Arranged concentrically within the gasolene receptacle and its hood orcover12, is a cylindrical I drum, consisting preferably of imperforateends 15, and a perforated body composed of se mental doors 16, theadjacent ends of the oors overlapping and being supported by parallelbars 17 con- IIpecting the ends 15, as shown clearly in I n practice,each door is provided with a plurality of hinge loops 18. Near eachedge, and engaging the adjacent hinge loo s of juxtaposed doors areslidable hinge re s 19, each rod being of substantially step form withone of the steps engagin certain of the hinge loops of the doors. herods'are also provided with return bend portionsor arms 20 which engagethe remaining loops of the doors. .By this arran ementit WillPatentcdApr. -27, 1915.

be seen that the doors are re iably connected-together with a hingedrelationandthat the unengaged step of the rod can be conbe-opened. Bysimilarly withdrawing the at the opposite side of said door, the lat-'ter can be detached from the drum. By this arrangement it will be seenthat one or all of the doors may be openedwithout disturbing the othersor any part of the ma- -chineto facilitate the cleaning of the latter.The drum is provided with trunnions 21 rojecting outwardly from itsends, and sai trunnions are journaled in the ends of the semicylindricalreceptacle, it being noted in this connection that the ends of the hoodor cover are journaled on the trunnions between the ends of the drum andthe ends of the semicylindrical receptacle in order that the said hoodor cover may be caused to swing into the said receptacle below the drumand thus expose and give access to the upper half of the latter.

22 is a horizontal stub-shaft projecting outwardly from one end of thesemicylindrical receptacle, and journaled thereon is a wheel 23, adaptedto be driven by a belt, not shown, if desired, and said wheel is alsoprovided with a handle 24 for convenience in manually operating.themachine. Rotatable with wheel 23 is a gear pinion 25, meshing with agear wheel 26 journaled on a second but shorter horizontal stub shaft 27projecting from the same end of the said receptacle, and rotatable withsaid wheel 26 is a small pinion- 28, meshing with a large gear' wheel 29journaled on a third stubshaft 30, projecting from said receptacle.Wheel 29 is also provided with a wrist pin 31, with which a pitman 32ispivotally connected and said pitman is provided with an offset,longitudinal'portion 33, provided with a longitudinal slot 34, slidablyreceiving a. hollow shaft 35, journaled on a fourth stubshaft 36projecting from said receptacle, and for convenience in turning saidhollow shaft 35 by hand, it is equipped with a crank handle 37.

At the outer end of the offset portion 33 of the pitman is a lug 38,provided with a slot 39, and adapted to engage said slot when thecleaning operation of the machine is in progress, is a clamping screw40, carried at one end of a rack-bar 41 pivotally connected at itsopposite end at 42, to the pitman, the clamping screw by binding at itsheaded end on lug 38 securing the rackbar rigidly in position and inengagement with a gear wheel 43 rigidly secured on the hollow shaft 35.Rigidly secured on the same shaft is a large gear wheel 44 meshing witha small gear wheel 45 rigidly secured on the adjacent trunnion of thedrum. By this arrangement it will be seen that rotation imparted towheel 23 is transmitted through the connections described to the drumand that through the reciprocating action of the rack bar, the rotationof the drum is automatically reversed without affecting the continuousrotation in one direction of wheels 23, 25, 26, 28 and 29, the remainingwheels of course rotating forward and backward alternately to impartcorresponding movement to the drum.

When it is desired to rotate the drum con-.

tinuously in one direction, the clamp-ing screw 40 is turned backward topermlt of upward adjustment of the rack bar until it is disengaged fromwheel 43 and then the movement of the screw is reversed to clamp therack bar in its disengaged or inoperative position. The handle 37 isthen turned to impart rotation at a high rate of speed, to the drum.

In practice the clothes are placed in the drum and submerged in gasolenecontained within the gasolene receptacle. Hot water is then introducedinto the receptacle 5 for the purpose of heating the gasolene withoutdanger of explosion. The wheel 23 is then revolved and as a result ofsuch action the drum is first revolved in one direction and 7 then inthe other for the purpose of subjecting the clothes to more or lessforcible contact with the gasolene through the violent agitation thereofdue to such movement of the clothes. After the lapse of twenty or thirtyminutes, the elothes are, thoroughly cleaned and the gasolene is drawnoff by opening the valve or stop cock 11. The rack bar is then withdrawnfrom engagement,

with the Wheel 43 as hereinbefore explained and secured in itsinoperative position, this adjustment being followed by the rotation ofshaft 35 through the instrumentality of handle 37, the wheels 43, 44 and45 transmitting such power for the purpose of revolving the drum at highvelocity. Under this high speed of the drum in one direction what littlegasolene remains in the clothes is extracted by centrifugal force andWithin a few minutes every vestige is driven out of the clothes and thelatter aretaken out of the machine ready for the dry room or sunlight,in a thoroughly cleansed condition.

From the above description it will be apparent that I have produced arenovator embodying the features of advantage enumerated as desirable inthe statement of the object of the invention and I wish it to beunderstood that while I have illustrated and described the preferredembodiment of the invention I do not desire to be restricted to theexact details of construction shown and described as obviousmodifications will suggest themselves to one skilled in the art.

I claim:

The combination with a wheel and means for driving it, of a'rotatableelement, a wheel geared thereto, a pitman pivoted to the first-namedwheel and guided with re spect to the 'last-n'amed wheel, and a racksaid wheel may be rotated continuously 1n,

gne direction when not engaged by the rack In testimony whereof I afiixmy signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM A. SALTER.

Witnesses:

HELEN C. RODGERS, G. Y. THORPE.

